It still wants a temple built at Ayodhya, and it still preaches swadeshi (economic nationalism).

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Mr Madhav expects 1m people to turn up and to move on to Ayodhya for a peaceful demonstration.

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One was Ayodhya Prasad Chaubey, an Indian man shot in August.

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She is a controversial figure in Indian politics, having been accused of inciting Hindu hardliners who destroyed the Babri mosque near Ayodhya in 1992.

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Even the Gujarat violence was related to it: it followed the burning to death of several dozen Hindu activists on a train from Ayodhya.

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Of the 58 people asphyxiated or burned to death, many were Hindu devotees, returning from a gathering at the contested site of a temple in the holy town of Ayodhya.

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Most strikingly, the Mumbai bombs went off just hours after reports that archaeologists had found some evidence of a tenth-century Hindu temple beneath the site of the 16th-century Babri mosque in the northern town of Ayodhya.

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The Ayodhya campaign, along with the continuing disintegration of the Congress, helped the BJP make it to national power for a brief 13 days in 1997 and, more durably, in an unwieldy coalition that took the reins last February.

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But Ayodhya also produced a backlash.

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